List stuff to borrow for your people, anonymously
Details
- External ID
- 49272914
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- List stuff to borrow for your people, anonymously
- Website domain
- toolpool.garden
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hey yall, I built this for my makerspace. We wanted to let each other borrow things, but also didn't want to put up a big shiny sign saying "hey everyone, my garage has a super fancy oscilloscope just sitting there" and also didn't want to necessarily always need to say yes to everything.However, when I show it to people, they've been suggesting using it for other things like board games, or wedding equipment, etc. I'm still trying to find PMF, so please let me know what you think!For the stack, it's all Elixir + LiveView which is really nice, and then Fly.io, Fly's MPG, Tigris Data, Cloudflare, Sentry, Mailjet, and Gitlab + self-hosted runners.Also, if you'd like a refrigerator magnet, please let me know :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- anonymous item borrowing for groups
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes ToolPool is a community tool-sharing platform featuring anonymous listings, role-based visibility, and simple peer-to-peer messaging, which fits standard web CRUD and authentication patterns.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Discord
Concerns raised: Single fixed location per pool limits geographic scalability and creates coordination challenges for spread-out members, Pricing model sustainability - one person paying unlimited for entire group, Trust and safety mechanisms for stranger interactions, Copy/messaging unclear about how trust and vetting work
Feature requests: Anonymous decline option - hide who rejected a request, Community rules agreement and optional admin confirmation for invite links, Better communication of trust-building features (reviews, rankings, profile visibility)
Competitors
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Attention rank: #81 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
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